The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend.

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.

Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different editions.

Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.'

many things I knew, I have forgotten; many things I thought I knew, I find I know nothing about; some things I know, I have found not worth knowing; and some things I would give - O what would one not give to know? are beyond the reach of human ken.

The world has little to bestow Where two fond hearts in equal love are joined.